Political Science — Middle East
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- Arabic Manuscripts from West Africa Online catalog to materials in NU's Herskovits Library of African Studies. ".... over 5,000 items.... Original, hand-written manuscripts make up more than 60 percent of the content.... mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, making it a unique and valuable resource for scholars interested in the production of Islamic knowledge in West Africa ...."
- Dictionary
of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
, 2 volumes, 2005. - Digital
National Security Archive Contains over 35,000 declassified
national security documents obtained through the Freedom of
Information Act. Comprised
of twelve collections -- Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958-1962,
Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Iran-Contra Affair, Intelligence
Community, Iran Revolution,
Military Uses of Space, Nicaragua, Nuclear Non-Proliferation,
Philippines, and South Africa.
- Economist
Intelligence Unit on the Internet Economic data on 150
countries, from about 1980 to present.
- Encyclopedia
of Islam and the Muslim World
- Encyclopedia
of the Modern Middle East & North Africa
- Factiva-domestic & international
news Provides access to over 6,000 US and foreign full-text
news and business publications, e.g., Bangkok Post, Concord
Times (Sierra Leone), Dunya (Turkey), O Estado de Sao Paulo,
Jakarta Post, The Straits Times (Singapore), Die Welt (Germany),
etc. Includes reports, stock quotes, and documents such as
treaties of the EU. For search help, go to the Factiva
Help Page.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974 - 1996 "Created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications. Translated into English from more than 50 languages - from Arabic to Swahili - these comprehensive media reports from around the globe include news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary."
- Index
Islamicus Citations to over 240,000 articles and monographs
dealing with all aspects of Muslim life and Middle
Eastern studies, including history,
economics, and philosophy in English and other languages.
- International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from
an international selection of publications, including
over 2600 journals,
in all areas of the social sciences with emphasis
on economics, political science, sociology
and anthropology.
- JSTOR Provides
electronic access to back issues of core scholarly
journals including almost 30 in Political Science.
To browse the
list of archives, click here.
Articles have been digitized, providing full-image
access.
- The Koran This is a fully searchable electronic edition of The Holy Qur'an, translated by M.H. Shakir and published by Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., in 1983, and provided to the public by the University of Michigan.
- Microform and CD-ROM Collections of the U of C Guide to resources in political science and history in these formats at the University of Chicago (to which NU faculty and students have access via reciprocal privileges).
- Middle East Microform Project (MEMP)—CRL "...copies of unique, scarce, rare and unusually bulky and expensive research" items. Includes primary materials from or about Arab countries, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and others. See, too, SEEMP for additional coverage. CRL is located in Chicago. Materials are readily available through Interlibrary Loan and possibly through appointment.
- Middle East Studies Gateway to Internet resources; humanities and social sciences.
- Middle East Studies Internet Resources on WWW Virtual Library site maintained via Columbia University.
- Oxford Islamic Studies Online "Over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur’anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines... first stop for anyone needing information on Islam... browse by era, topic, and geographic region, filter to view a specific type of content... set criteria for locating biographical entries, bibliographic references, primary sources, terms..."
- Oxresearch
- Oxford Analytica Research papers, source intelligence, and global strategic analysis on issues in current business, security studies, development, world politics, developing countries, and economic history. Bridges the time-gap between newspaper reporting of current events and the appearance of scholarly works.
- PAIS
International Bibliographic index to the literature of
public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in
general. Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical
compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports
of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations,
and most other forms of printed literature from all over
the world are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present.
Go to PAIS
International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The
archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
- Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts Citations
with abstracts from more than 1100 journals
in political
science
and related disciplines.
Coverage is
international in scope.
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